#Yeah you heard that right

[enigmajaython]

What's this ship dynamic called?

[sunflowersteves]

ain’t no sunshine is gonna be longer than I thought because I’m adding TWO smut scenes so please bear with me

the fic might be posted late tonight/tomorrow

[feelin-frazzled]

just stayed up til 2 am finishing a story that very specifically caters to myself... happy 2024 everyone

[temporaryuniverse-writing]

Scale and Bone

Pairings: None CW: violence, slavery Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Rex, Agruss, Anakin Skywalker, Kix, Plo Koon Summary: The Zygerrians know all the best ways to break a person. Between the electrowhips and the starvation and the Togruta being punished in his place, Obi-Wan is struggling to hold himself back. Tearing the slavers apart with his teeth and claws is becoming more and more appealing.

read on ao3...

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Snippet:

They had separated him from Rex again today, leaving Obi-Wan to shovel rock by himself while the Captain was taken somewhere else to complete some other menial, back-breaking, mind-numbing work.

It was both better and worse this way. Better, because Obi-Wan didn’t have to worry about Rex getting hurt when he acted out or wavered in his work or forgot not to speak, but worse also because Obi-Wan was fairly sure the Captain was half of his sanity at this point. The only thing standing between him and losing himself to the mindset the Zygerrians were trying to force on him.

He loaded another shovel load of rock into the cart, his spine aching from his tailbone to his skull and every muscle weary and weak. He didn’t think he’d eaten in at least two days, not after the slavers had caught him trying to share his food with a young Togrutan and decided that meant he shouldn’t get food at all.

It was hard to restrain himself from stepping in to the Togruta's defense, and he hated himself for his inaction, hated groveling at the feet of his masters to avoid a worse punishment. Rex had been able to keep his head down, but Obi-Wan had been trained since birth to be kind, to lend himself to others, to help wherever and whenever he could. Such things were engrained in him, part of who he was, part of his very nature.

Keeper Agruss knew how to take advantage of that.

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[jjohnsonwilliams]

Random Stuff:

I believe that's what I see and hear in some Johnny's concerts at the Tokyo Dome. 

  Also, I know the band's name and heard Julian's voice, and I feel like I wanna ROCKS

[a-cat-in-toffee]

this is what I've been neglecting spsdaily to do btw

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

[cia-unofficial]

every fbi agent has shitty handwriting.

[mychemicalbrromance]

#1 like a prayer fan none of you understand (insane)

[kita-shinsukes-hand-holder]

I hate you mfs that don't like Gwen after across the spider verse it smells like misogyny

[berlingotesque]

Average Bendy enjoyer experience right now.

[dve]

pyrrha dve in the club flirting with the dancers and having an altogether bad time. where's that fic. pyrrha at her absolute sleaziest and therefore absolute sexiest just having a nightmare of an evening

[k-dayun]

He is half of my soul, as the poets say.

[messrsrobyn]

sirius taking remus' last name? lovely. adorable. sirius lupin. officially no longer a Black.

remus taking sirius' last name!? Incredible. Showstopping.

random person: Sirius Black? Like Walburga Black? :/

sirius: mmm no like REMUS BLACK ‼️‼️‼️

sirius taking back that family name and giving it to a gay werewolf? i support this. what a power move.

[inkskinned]

hey it's nanowrimo. i have tips bc i've done it about 34 times.

Don't edit. Ever. Stop it. If you just decide to start a new project half thru this one with all new characters, no problem. pick up and keep writing as if you'd already written the first half of that.

"but i spelled it wrong" whatever. "but the grammar" whatever. make it exist first. no time for sense. think like you're working on a typewriter. no backspace. only forward go.

Don't re-read further than a paragraph or two backwards. "did i mention the gun before?" listen - it doesn't matter. if you need there to be a gun there, the gun is there. put it back in once you finish the book.

"i forgot the specifics of X thing i already wrote" whatever. change it, make a note/comment to figure it out later, and just write what makes sense for the moment. "no raquel it's legit the characters name and origin" idc that character is now reborn as Claudius from Elsewhere. it's fine.

only you see your mistakes. nobody else knows. one of the ways writing and dance overlap - only you know the choreography. nobody else will know if you miss a step, so just keep dancing and pretend you meant to do it like that.

it's an illusion that you need to write linearly - from point A to point B to point C. Nah; that's just timeline propaganda. I've written a LOT of books out of order and just reordered them once i've finished. if you have a scene you'd LOVE to write but can't get there yet because of plot, just fuckin write the scene. I've always found its easier to establish "point F" "point J" and "Point A" and then wiggle my way between those scenes.

write what you WANT to write. 230 pages of smut? of well-researched discussion on bread? whatever. the point is to strengthen muscles however you can.

if you miss a day, a week, whatever. not the end of the world. we all have dry days. also time is a myth so u can do this challenge whenever u want.

as soon as you try to write for a specific audience, you kill your voice. you are writing for yourself. stop thinking about how people will take ur book. it don't matter. what matter is u, enjoying writing. i luv u.

play to your strengths. i have characters talk so much because i don't know how to write a plot if it kills me but i'm really good at dialogue so.

i love a flight of fancy. write a poem in there. shift tactics and write in code. keep it fun for yourself.

see what happens if you shift something major about ur main characters - gender, wealth, superpowers. or if you change point-of-view. or if you kill everyone in a big explosion. do NOT edit anything before this or after it. often these little weird one-off exercises teach me what interests me about what i'm working on. it is never what i thought. plus it is a fun way to add like 1k words.

stretch.

it's for fun and for practice. stop doing that project if it's giving you anxiety. once my nano was literally 50k words of half-started stories. just things i tried and tried and tried and wasn't able to flesh out. oops. but i am now 50k words of a better writer.

add dragons?

read books/listen to books on tape/etc. people often make the mistake of "buckling down" to just write. you need inspiration. you need to like. fill up on words. you need to remember how it feels to lose yourself in a story.

i don't have the time or space to really talk about this in this post but a lot of creative people turn to drugs/alcohol because it can help you be more creative. this is harmful, and walking a blade that only cuts deep. if you notice you and your loved ones are turning more to substances, please know i love you and i hope you are able to get help soon. i feel like this almost never gets mentioned because it's kind of a hazy underbelly to art. you are always more important than the work.

on that note. drink your fukin. water.

don't talk about a story until you've finished it. once you tell the story, it exists already, and isn't about discovery. i usually have a very canned "haha we'll see" response.

grapes :) tasty snack.

i love you be free.

[luckylunatix]

Man... How the hell did they make this frog so pretty?

I'm at least half convinced he's supposed to be deliberate furry bait cuz like wow. He's so gorgeous for a character initially introduced as some silly cartoony mascot character.